Good photos Busy. Thanks. Some lovely plants in there but seeing them massed like that make me realise I don't want a mono culture of dahlias except maybe if i do a cutting garden.
Love those benches and the water garden. Very inviting.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Just in case any of you are thinking of visiting Connemara, here are a few photos of Kylemore Abbey and its wonderful walled garden (created out of a bog!). The original owner planted a lot of trees, in the 1860s, and the Victorian scheme for the garden is being re-created - including, as money permits, rebuilding the huge range of glasshouses designed to provide the ladies with somewhere to exercise in inclement weather as well as to grow bananas, pineapples, grapes etc.
Quite a pile... he had a private church built in the grounds, modelled on Norwich cathedral:
I think these Victorians had delusions of grandeur!
Fantastic backdrop to the garden.
The lake-side walks were a bonus.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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. The benches do look very inviting.....
Good photos Busy. Thanks. Some lovely plants in there but seeing them massed like that make me realise I don't want a mono culture of dahlias except maybe if i do a cutting garden.
Love those benches and the water garden. Very inviting.
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Hello , just sitting conservatory listening to the rain , so looking at these pictures cheers me up
Just in case any of you are thinking of visiting Connemara, here are a few photos of Kylemore Abbey and its wonderful walled garden (created out of a bog!). The original owner planted a lot of trees, in the 1860s, and the Victorian scheme for the garden is being re-created - including, as money permits, rebuilding the huge range of glasshouses designed to provide the ladies with somewhere to exercise in inclement weather as well as to grow bananas, pineapples, grapes etc.
Quite a pile... he had a private church built in the grounds, modelled on Norwich cathedral:
I think these Victorians had delusions of grandeur!
Fantastic backdrop to the garden.
The lake-side walks were a bonus.
Grandeur in the Abbey, gardens and landscape Liri.
You need the good Irish rain to have that environment.
pp will agree with me.
We had a bit of good old Irish rain while we were there, Joyce... and some voracious midges. Worth it though!
Lir , looks a fabulous place , thanks for sharing pictures with us
Fabulous Liri - what a setting
Oh Liri - that's stunning. You could never tire of that view
...when the rain and mist allows of course
Glasshouse is gorgeous too.
Beautiful set of photos. You should put some of those on the camera thread too. The first three especially . Glorious
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looks like a fairytale castle. Gorgeous lake.